>>>>Tom,
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>>>>Will do, Tom. My sympathies on the weather. As you can probably imagine, I'm not unfamiliar with those kind of conditions.
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>>>George;
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>>>Having spent 1 1/2 years at Orlando Air Force Base in Florida, I have a good ideal of how the weather is in your area. :)
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>>Tom,
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>>Well, it's not quite as bad as Orlando. Especially, when they're having the "Humidity Festival".< bg >
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>George;
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>One thing (and there are many) I remember about Orlando is the lightning storms during the summer! Wow! We would stop the car, pull off the road and just watch. At about 9 PM one evening we actually saw lightning in the form of a cross! That was a special event to me. It began at the center and formed a cross as if it was a four-pointed rocket. Unreal!
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>Doing some research I read (from several sources not on the Internet) that Orlando, Florida has the greatest number of lightning hits in the world.
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>By the way one day the humidity got down to 99% and the television newsperson was so upset! "It is too dry"! Wow!
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>Stand still in Orlando for a few minutes and you will be covered with a light green mold.
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>Stand still for an hour and you will be covered with Spanish Moss.
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>Stand still for two hours and you are a tourist attraction! :)
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Tom,

< g >About the only thing I enjoy in Orlando is that there are Uno's Pizzerias there. The original Uno's is in the near north side of Chicago. Originally, they had only two locations, both in Chicago (the other named, appropriately, Due's).

They're now a chain. Just your typical chain decor, and the pizza isn't as good as the original's but it's close. The decor of the original, BTW, could be described as "early dungeon".:-)

I know what you mean about the thuderstorms. Day starts off sunny, you go over to someplace like Daytona or Ormand Beach and then, between 3 and 4 in the afternoon, here come the thunderstorms.

Orlando's also one of the few places where, when you walk out of an air conditioned store, your glasses fog up.